US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Nov. 4 for "Polarized black-body emission for machine vision and object recognition" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,021, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Polarized black-body emission for machine vision and object recognition" was invented by Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for object and material recognition are provided and include a hyperspectral infrared camera that captures a three-dimensional image of an object and black-body emissions data indicating a polarization of black-body radiation emitted from the object. An image processing device accesses a database of expected polarization signatures of black-body emissions from m...